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The command lastlog shows a complete list of users. A lot of these are the users that services such as apache use. But it is a complete list. You say this is a server. What service does it serve? Is it a windows file server?

If someone needs to maintain this network, and the job is apparently falling on you, maybe you should try to learn more about what is going on. But to deal with your immediate issues try $ lastlog | less The dollar sign only represents the prompt on your terminal and is not part of the command. The command above is an example of what is referred to as piping. It "pipes" the output of the lastlog command into the input of the less command. The less command is called a pager. It allows you to page up and down through the output of the lastlog command. To get the output into a file try $ lastlog > lastlog_out.txt This command is an example of redirection. The output of lastlog is redirected from standard out into the file lastlog_out.txt In this form with only one > the file lastlog_out.txt is created if it does not exist and is filled with the output of the lastlog command. If it does exist, it is truncated to a zero length and then filled with the output of the lastlog command. How you get the file to one of the other network computers depends on which servers you have running on your redhat machine.